- Title Pages
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 The global energy context -
2 Energy systems and innovation -
3 Deepening globalization -
4 The global climate change regime -
5 The implications of indirect emissions for climate and energy policy -
6 Energy production and ecosystem services -
7 Technical, economic, social, and cultural perspectives on energy demand -
8 Energy access and development in the twenty-first century -
9 Improving efficiency in buildings -
10 Challenges and options for sustainable travel -
11 Shipping and aviation -
12 Carbon capture and storage -
13 Fossil fuels -
14 Unconventional fossil fuels and technological change -
15 The geopolitical economy of a globalizing gas market -
16 Nuclear power after Fukushima -
17 Bioenergy resources -
18 Solar energy -
19 Water -
20 Global wind power developments and prospects -
21 Network infrastructure and energy storage for low-carbon energy systems -
22 Metals for the low-carbon energy system -
23 Electricity markets and their regulatory systems for a sustainable future -
24 Global scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions reduction -
25 Energy and ecosystem service impacts -
26 Policies and conclusions - Author Index
- General Index
Water
Water
ocean energy and hydro
- Chapter:
- (p.377) 19 Water
- Source:
- Global Energy
- Author(s):
Laura Finlay
Henry Jeffrey
Andy MacGillivray
George Aggidis
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The first part of the chapter examines the wave and tidal stream sector, providing an overview of the wave and tidal resource both within the UK and globally, and provides details of the various classifications of wave and tidal energy device types. An outline of the current status of ocean energy array progress, and the development of future array projects, provides details of the technology challenges the sector faces. Details of the levelized costs of energy for wave and tidal energy, the need and potential for cost reduction within the sector, information regarding the uncertainty of cost within the sector, and an overview of the potential of cost of energy reduction through innovation are explored in detail. The second part of the chapter reviews the installed capacity, technology, and operation of hydropower, together with the prospects for its further development and possible social and environmental constraints on that development.
Keywords: ocean energy, wave energy, tidal energy, marine energy, hydropower
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- Title Pages
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 The global energy context -
2 Energy systems and innovation -
3 Deepening globalization -
4 The global climate change regime -
5 The implications of indirect emissions for climate and energy policy -
6 Energy production and ecosystem services -
7 Technical, economic, social, and cultural perspectives on energy demand -
8 Energy access and development in the twenty-first century -
9 Improving efficiency in buildings -
10 Challenges and options for sustainable travel -
11 Shipping and aviation -
12 Carbon capture and storage -
13 Fossil fuels -
14 Unconventional fossil fuels and technological change -
15 The geopolitical economy of a globalizing gas market -
16 Nuclear power after Fukushima -
17 Bioenergy resources -
18 Solar energy -
19 Water -
20 Global wind power developments and prospects -
21 Network infrastructure and energy storage for low-carbon energy systems -
22 Metals for the low-carbon energy system -
23 Electricity markets and their regulatory systems for a sustainable future -
24 Global scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions reduction -
25 Energy and ecosystem service impacts -
26 Policies and conclusions - Author Index
- General Index
